Re: [PATCH 4/6] aoe: use device_add_disk_with_groups()

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On 08/01/2018 03:00 AM, Ed Cashin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 3:12 AM Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:hare@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Use device_add_disk_with_groups() to avoid a race condition with
>     udev during startup.
> 
> 
> I love the idea of getting rid of the race, but I am having trouble
> seeing what happened to the cleanup we had via sysfs_remove_group.
> You're storing a pointer to groups off the device, but I don't see it
> getting
> used for cleanup later in this patch set.  Are you patching linux-next?
> 
And that's the beauty of this patch: you don't need to free/unlink the
groups yourself.
Unlinking is done in the driver core via
device_del()->device_remove_attrs()->device_remove_groups().

So no separate patch needed.

Cheers,

Hannes
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